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Mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 20 (28 days away, but who's counting?) for the SVA MFA DESIGN THESIS FORUM which will be held at the SVA Theatre.

21 talented SVA Masters Degree candidates will present and defend their thesis projects to an industry-filled audience.

Join us for UNLEASHED when the MFA candidates for 2010 each present their unique concepts in ten minutes followed by five minutes for audience feedback and questions. Every year, MFAD candidates’ work reflects the leading-edge quality of the school and its graduates. You will be inspired, surprised, and motivated by the ideas of our future design leaders.

SVA MFA Designer as Author
THESIS FORUM
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
SVA Theater
333 West 23rd Street
New York, New York 10011

The “SVA MFA Designer As Author” program is predicated on the growing need for content providers throughout visual media. Building on students’ fluency with the graphic design language of type and image, the MFA Design program is the first in the United States developed exclusively to encourage authorship and entrepreneurship across a broad range of media. As a result of this ground-breaking curriculum, students envision, develop and present real concepts and products designed to enter the marketplace and serve a specific audience.

Springtime will soon be here and there are many events to attend this month. To start off March, we're giving away 10 free tickets to the AIGA/NY Jessie Auersalo talk. To get a ticket, just post a comment and share an event we can blog about. First come first serve. 

1. Small Talk: Jessie Auersalo/BIG ACTIVE
In his first-ever U.S. presentation, Jesse Auersalo will discuss his design background, its relationship to his personal background and how they all affect what he is doing now. Jesse is an illustrator dividing his time between Brooklyn and Helsinki. His distinctive, character-driven work is marked by an aesthetic he describes as, "polished and clean, as well as sticky and dirty." His images are uniquely powerful, dark, intriguing and captivating.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10S5/
When: March 3, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Bumble and bumble, 3rd fl, 415 West 13th Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 student members, $35 general public

2. Armory Arts Week
Art insiders spend their whole lives traveling from fair to fair—Venice, Basel, Miami Beach, London—but each March they return to New York for Armory Arts Week. "With Basel, in Miami, it's like the whole world moves [there] for one week, but for the rest of the year it's not really an art city," says Katelijne De Backer, longtime director of The Armory Show,"New York is the center of the art world." The Armory Show: New Art by Living Artists (Pier 94) and Modern: Art of the 20th Century (Pier 92). The twelfth edition marks another milestone for the fair with the introduction of Armory Focus, a new section that will feature an important art community every year and is premiering with Berlin. This year The Armory Show features 267 galleries from 31 countries.
http://www.armoryartsweek.com
When: March 4-7, 2010, 12:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Various locations, New York, NY
Price: $30 general public, $10 students

3. Working with Inhibitions to Creativity
Marilyn LaMonica, MPS, NCPsych, will discuss how psychoanalytic theory provides a unique explanation of impediments to creative work. Clinical cases of a filmmaker, a painter and a writer will be used to demonstrate how explorations of fantasized object relations lead to freer access to creative potential.
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3265
When: March 5, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: MPS Art Therapy, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C, New York, NY
Price: Free and open to the public. RSVP 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu

4. The Tablet
Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, and Matt Jacobs, designer for Six Apart, will discuss new modes of media presentation. They will address how the size of an object frames the user experience and how designers need to consider grid, typography and behavior differently. Books. Magazines. Televisions. We hear these words, and understand well what shape their content will take. But “tablet?” “Digital magazine?” How does the size of the objects frame the user experience? Influence their portability or accessibility? How will the experience with these devices compare with other more “fuller-figured” media? How do we need to consider grid, typography, and behavior differently? Hear from four perspectives how telling stories in new spaces influences new experiences.
http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events/entry/lecture_the_tablet/
When: March 10, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Price: $6 general public, register at http://svaixd-tablet.eventbrite.com

5. Collaboration: Pablo Medina/Parsons School of Design
Can Collaboration Help Haiti? On Thursday, January 28th, Pablo Medina gave a tough assignment to the 15 students in his Experimental Typography class at Parsons The New School for Design: Use the medium of typography to help Haiti. Students are now working in pairs to satisfy the assignment. Each pair has one week to come up with 15 ideas and one more week to execute the very best of those 15 ideas. On March 11th, Pablo and his students will jointly present each of the final solutions. At the end of the presentation, the audience will vote for the most successful project and that project will - in the following weeks - be executed to achieve the ultimate goal: to help Haiti. All event proceeds will be donated to Yéle Haiti.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10C3/
When: March 11, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY
Price: $13 members, $26 general public

6. Chris Hacker: Design Thinking & Sustainability
At the top of Chris Hacker’s agenda is the imaginative application of sustainable design thinking. He has overseen this process as Chief Design Officer at Johnson & Johnson for the last five years, and at Aveda™ for the previous five. Dubbed as “the man to bring sustainable design to corporate America”, by ID Magazine, Hacker and several members of his design and engineering team will explain their approach to sustainability in both design and business, illuminating his mission: to change the way designers think about sustainability. They will discuss how they have updated the design process at J&J, where over the last 5 years Chris has built a 120-person think tank, including an award-winning design team, where environmentally conscious decisions are a fundamental part of the process. Hacker is Chief Design Officer of the NY-based Global Strategic Design Office, Johnson & Johnson Group of Consumer Companies, leading all creative processes for brand identity, packaging design and brand imagery at J&J Consumer. Prior to J&J, Hacker lead Marketing and Design for Aveda™. His work was awarded the 2004 National Design Award for Corporate Achievement from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10DS/
When: March 12, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 students, $30 general public

7. Design Trust: Partnerships to Improve Public Space
Deborah Marton, executive director of the Design Trust for Public Space, will provide an overview of several of the organization’s projects, the process that went into shaping them and their influence on public space in New York City.
http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/events/lecture-with-deborah-marton/
When: March 16, 2010, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Price: Free and open to the public. RSVP 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu

8. The Buzellis, A Marriage of Art Direction & Illustration
Soo Jin Buzelli is the creative director of PLANSPONSOR, PLANADVISER and ai5000 magazines; Tim O'Brien once said SooJin's magazines were like "Fantasy Island for illustrators." Chris Buzelli is an award-winning illustrator who works in advertising, publishing and editorial for clients pretty much everywhere. Together they make a powerful and creative team whose love and support for illustration is hard to match. Chris Buzelli will be signing limited-edition prints after the lecture.
http://www.spd.org/calendar.php
When: March 16, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Price: $10 members, $7 students, $15 general public RSVP 212.838.2560 or jessica@societyofillustrators.org

9. Type Salon: Cooking with Type
Douglas Riccardi will speak about his cookbook work for Mario Batali and give an survey of cookbook design and typography through the years: discovering trends, uncovering the roots of conventions, and perhaps even discovering new possibilities. After working in New York and Italy for 10 years, Ricardi founded Memo Productions in 1993. The studio’s work focuses on brand identity and development with many clients in the restaurant, food and hospitality industry. He has designed 8 best-selling cookbooks and for Mario Batali and 8 restaurants for celebrity chef Mario Batali.
http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/1049
When: March 18, 2010, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY
Price: Free for members, $15 students, $20 general public RSVP 212.633.8643 or director@tdc.org

10. Stewart Smith
Greg Brunkalla has been directing commercial content, music videos, and other moving images in New York City since 2002. He has recently founded a new media company with industry friends called Legs, based out of Milk Studios in NYC. Legs' first project was a multifaceted black-and-white film campaign for Diesel.com. Greg was nominated for an Emmy for a series he directs for The New York Times Style Magazine. Other clients include: Nike, Levi's, Kia, and Diet Coke. Agencies he has worked with include: Mother, Taxi, Farfar, Duetsche, 180, and Ogilvy. He lives in Brooklyn. Greg is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.
http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/
When: March 22, 2010, 6:30–8:00 pm
Where: Apple Store SoHo, 103 Prince Street, New York, NY
Price: Free, no reservation required

11. E Pluribus Unum: Creating Design Policy in the U.S.A.
Casey Jones, Director of Design Excellence and the Arts for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), will discuss his role in overseeing the design and development of new and renovated federal buildings as well as the artwork commissioned for them. Previously, Jones led jones|kroloff with Reed Kroloff (Director of Cranbrook Academy), an architect selection advisory firm whose clients included the Whitney Museum of Art, Yale University, Friends of the High Line and Brad Pitt’s Global Green USA.
http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/events/lecture-with-casey-jones/
When: March 30, 2010, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Price: Free and open to the public. RSVP 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu

Happy February! Love is in the air indeed, and because we love our readers, we're giving away tickets to AIGA/NY Eddie Opara, and Glenn Cummings. To get a ticket, just post a comment and share an event we can blog about. Please indicate which event you'd like to attend. First come first serve.

1. Paul Sahre
Paul Sahre meditates on, among other things, "alien abduction attempts, the hairless hand, dead pig heads, and eating the dinosaur." Paul creates book covers, posters, images, photography and illustrations for clients such as The New York Times, Metropolis Magazine, Seed Magazine, T Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Esquire Magazine, Sundance Channel, The New School University, The School of Visual Arts, Marvel Comics, Knopf, Little Brown, Beacon Press, Simon and Schuster, Scribner, Farrar Strauss and Giroux, Penguin Putnam, Verve Records to name a few.
http://www.spd.org/speaker-series/2010/01/paul-sahre-alien-abduction-att.php
When: February 9, 2010, 7 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Helen Mills Theatre, 137-139 West 26th Street, New York, NY
Price: $15 members, $10 students and faculty, $25 general public

2. The Arkadium Game Design Workshop Series: Multiplayer Game Design
At the heart of every successful game is strong game design – the systems and interactivity that create meaningful experiences for players. Systems of Play is a workshop series brought to you by Arkadium that combines informative lectures with hands-on design exercises to explore the unique challenges of game design. Lead by Naomi Clark and Eric Zimmerman. Clark held lead design positions at LEGO.com and Gamelab, and taught courses in multiplayer game design at Parsons School of Design. Zimmerman is the co-founder of Gamelab and co-author of Rules of Play; he taught game courses at MIT, NYU, SVA, and Parsons.
http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events/entry/arkadium_session_3/
When: February 24, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: MFA Interaction Design, 132 W 21st Street, 6 Fl, New York, NY
Price: Free. RSVP to http://www.arkadium.com/gamedesignworkshop.html

3. Eddie Opara
Eddie Opara will share examples of The Map Office's dynamic, accessible and beautiful creations, from wall coverings to software applications. British-born Eddie Opara is a designer with a background in multiple design areas. Over the past four to five years after leaving 2x4, Eddie set up The Map Office as a contemporary design agency that strives to build compelling visual ideas through design and technology. He is the winner of numerous awards such as Art Director Club Gold, AIGA 365 and ID Magazine Awards. His work has appeared in publications such as Archis, ID Magazine, Graphis, and Surface. His work as part of 2x4 is part of the permanent collection at the MoMA and SFMOMA.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10S6/
When: **Rescheduled due to weather.** New date: February 22, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Bumble and bumble, 3rd fl, 415 West 13th Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 student members, $35 general public

4. Glen Cummings / MTWTF
The evening will focus on graphic design, urban planning, graphic design and architecture. Glen Cummings of MTWTF will be joined on stage by a few of his most recent collaborators each of whom will offer a very different perspective on what it takes to produce a good design project. Projects include work with The Center for Urban Pedagogy, SCAPE Landscape Architects, The City of Newark, Safari 7, ArtHome, The Justice Mapping Center and Studio Museum Harlem. In 2008, Glen founded MTWTF, a design practice with the specific mission of focusing on interdisciplinary collaborations with architects, advocates, designers and planners. The premise of MTWTF is that the overlapping interests of a group of collaborators is always more specific and curious than the preferences of the individual designers. Glen Cummings is the principal of MTWTF, and a lecturer in Graphic Design at Yale University School of Art.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10C2/
When: February 11, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY
Price: $13 members, $26 general public

5. Design USA Short Films
A selection of short films on National Design Award Winners and Finalists, including Eva Zeisel, Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, and Pentagram by filmmakers Jeremy Bales and Hillman Curtis. Jeremy Bales is a New York-based filmmaker and photographer. His film ‘Distinguished by Design’ is a sketch of Eva Zeisel’s life and work as she continues to design at age 102. Hillman Curtis is a filmmaker, designer and author whose company hillmancurtis, inc. produced the ‘Artist Series’ documentaries, as well as award-winning short films. He and his firm have designed digital media for, among others, MTV, Rolling Stone, Yahoo!, SonyBMG and Adobe. The work of Eva Zeisel, Milton Glaser, and Stefan Sagmeister, is included in Design USA: Contemporary Innovation, on view through April 4, 2010. The exhibition will be open before the program from 5:30–6:30pm. A short Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the screening.
http://events.cooperhewitt.org/
When: February 11, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street New York, NY
Price: $10 members and students, $15 general public

6. The Reel World: New York
A rare opportunity to see the Big Apple’s greatest motion-graphics gurus on the same stage describing the methods and meanings behind this ever-evolving art form. Speakers include Randy Balsmeyer of Big Film Design, Rama Allen, Creative Director at Digital Kitchen, Josh Norton of Big Star, and Karin Fong of Imaginary Forces, founding member and director
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10RW/
When: February 16, 2010, 6:30–9:00pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
Price: $13 members, $23 general public

7. Your Client is Your Worst Enemy
Designers beware – Clients from hell are on the loose! For the third consecutive year, TDC welcomes design victims to present their worst client horror stories as well as helpful, survival advice for making it out alive. Eric Baker, The O Group (ogroup.net), Rodrigo Corral, Rodrigo Corral Design (rodrigocorral.com), Fernando Music, and The Rooster Design Group (theroostergroup.com)
http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/1052
When: February 18, 2010, 6:00–8:00pm
Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY
Price: Free for members, $15 students, $20 general public.
RSVP to director@tdc.org or call 212-633-8943

8. Stewart Smith
Stewart Smith is the founder and principal of Stewdio (http://stewdio.org/), a consultancy that approaches art and software through the lens of graphic design. Stewdio has created collaborative works with renowned firms including Diller Scofidio+Renfro, O-R-G, Warning Office, and Death by Cyan. Stewart earned his MFA from Yale University and teaches Visualizing Data at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is also a research scholar at Columbia University.Stewart is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.
http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/
When: February 22, 2010, 6:30–8:00 pm
Where: Apple Store SoHo, 103 Prince Street, New York, NY
Price: Free, no reservation required

9. Design in the Face of Disaster
A discussion moderated by Chris Hacker, Chief Design Office for Johnson & Johnson, on how design can alleviate some of the innumerable problems facing Haiti right now. Panelists include Pierre Fouche, a Haitian earthquake engineer, Anna Muoio, Principal, Design Continuum, Social Innovation, and representatives from rescue and aid organizations, and other designers invested in both short term and long term solutions.
When: February 23, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street New York, NY
Price: Free

10. Tony Di Spgna on Typographics and Spencerian
Tony Di Spigna was born on the Island of Ischia, Italy and is a graduate of New York City Community College and Pratt Institute. Tony was a partner in the legendary studio of Lubalin Associates where he worked on all aspects of visual communication and graphic design. He has achieved international recognition for his letterform and typographic designs including exclusive newly designed corporate typefaces and logos. He has won numerous awards and his work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad. In 2007, he was honored with a one man show in Italy. He currently teaches at The New York institute of Technology and is a tenured professor at Pratt Institute where he was given the institute-wide Distinguished Professor Award.
http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/1905
When: February 24, 2010, 6:00–8:00pm
Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY
Price: Free for members, $15 students, $20 general public.
RSVP to director@tdc.org or call 1-212-633-8943

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Greener Gadgets Conference
Speakers like Yves Behar and Robert Fabricant tackle all of the issues surrounding energy efficiency and sustainable design, from innovative advances in packaging and product manufacturing to end-of-life recycling solutions, while highlighting ways in which electronics make a major impact by utilizing renewable energy in developing nations. The conference closes out with the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, highlighting a new class of sustainable product concepts, from those that create their own energy to those that minimize the need for any electricity at all.
http://www.greenergadgets.com/
When: February 25, 2010, 9:00 am–6:00 pm
Where: McGraw-Hill Conference Center, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Price: $75 students, $395 general public

Design for Humans
A conversation on user-centered design with National Design Award Winners and Finalists who have been recognized for their contribution to the field of Product Design. Moderated by Jesse Ashlock, former Editor-in-Chief of I.D. Magazine. Speakers include a pioneer of ergonomic design, Niels Diffrient, driven by the need to improve the way existing products work. Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa of Antenna Design, combining technological complexity with a sense of humanity. Smart Design founder, Dan Formosa, explains their simple goal: social responsibility through design.
http://events.cooperhewitt.org/
When: February 25, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street New York, NY
Price: $10 members and students, $15 general public

Sulki & Min / More & Less
http://www.manystuff.org/?p=5349
When: February 12, 2010 5:30pm
Where: Pratt Institute, 144 W 14th St, New York, NY
Price: Free

2010 Whitney Biennial
This year marks the seventy-fifth edition of the Whitney’s signature exhibition. While Biennials are always affected by the cultural, political, and social moment, this exhibition “simply titled 2010” embodies a cross section of contemporary art production rather than a specific theme. Balancing different media ranging from painting and sculpture to video, photography, performance, and installation, 2010 also serves as a two-way telescope through which the Whitney’s past and future can be observed.
http://www.whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial
When: February 25, 2010–May 30, 2010
Where: Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Price: Free members, $12 students, $18 general public, Pay-as-you-wish Fridays 6–9pm

MUSE's Art on Screen Film Festival
The Center for Architecture will host a series of international productions on architecture.
http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=1421
When: February 26, 2010 3:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10021

1. Design to Activate
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, co-founders of Antenna Design, speak about their belief in design’s power to activate people, both physically and intellectually, and to stimulate social interaction. For Antenna Design, “people-centered” design means recognizing people as complex beings with the potential to learn and grow, to be responsible, creative and reflective. http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/events/lecture-antenna-design/
When: December 15 2009, 6:00–8:00 pm
Where: MFA D-Crit Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd floor, NY, NY
Price: Free, RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu


2. AIGA/NY Holiday Party
Be merry and bright at the AIGA/NY Holiday Party. Admission includes a drink. http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10SP/
When: December 15 2009, 6:30–9:30 pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Price: $12 All attendees (includes a drink)


3. WWW.DESIGNBLOGGINGISCHANGINGEVERYTHING.COM
We're giving away FREE tickets! Just post a comment with your favorite design blog and we'll randomly select winners!

Four design blog luminaries, Khoi Vinh of subtraction.com, Josh Rubin CoolHunting.com, Tina Roth Eisenberg of swiss-miss.com, and our faculty Allan Chochinov of Core77.com, will discuss today's most prominent design trends, including example projects, critical discussion of how design blogs are changing design, the unintended consequences of self-publishing, and what blogging can achieve for its readers, writers, and the design community at large. Moderated by Alice Twemlow chair of the SVA MFA D-Crit and contributing editor at DesignObserver.com Questions for the discussion will be taken via Twitter leading up to and during the event. To pose a question, use the hashtag #freshd or address @freshdialogue.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10FD/
When: December 16 2009, 6:30–8:30 pm
Where: Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12 Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 student members, $35 general public, $10 Non-member students

4. SPD Holiday Party
SPD is holding a holiday part at Retreat, a sleek design-y lounge, complete with drinks, food, great tunes, sweet prizes, free cocktails & Secret Santa fun! http://www.spd.org/2009/12/tis-the-reason.php
When: December 15 2009, 7:00–Midnight
Where: Retreat, 37 West 17th Street, NY, NY
Price: Free for members, $10 for non-members in advance, $15 at the door (Open bar 7–9pm)

5. Exhibition: December Editions, Limited Edition Prints
Printmaking has been the backbone of counterculture art and design movements for decades, and even in today’s digital age, the process is still very much alive amongst many young designers. December Editions aims to provide a platform for designers who have produced their work through a variety of limited edition printmaking processes. View works by ADC Young Guns Andrio Abero, Paul Pope, Chris Rubino and ADC Hall of Fame Laureate and winner of the ADC Design Sphere Award Paula Scher. http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/events/calendar/?id=139
When: Now through December 23, 2009
Where: ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, NY, NY
Price: Free

6. Exhibition: Widows and Orphans
View a selection of Wilhelm Staehle's charming works, such as original silhouettes and fanciful letterforms along with selected pieces from his infamous Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre, and the Dollar Dreadful Family Library. http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/1510
When: Now through January 29, 2010
Where: Type Directors Club | 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603 | New York, NY
Price: Free, viewing by appointment only, email director@tdc.org or (212) 633-8943

Here's a roundup of interesting things to do, see and attend this week. Mark your calendars, this week is packed with great events!

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The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture is at the Visual Arts Gallery on the west side through November 7, 2009. Come and check out this multi-media exhibition of familiar work by notable alumni of Wilde, including Deb Bishop, Rodrigo Corral, Archie Ferguson, Drew Hodges, Julia Hoffman, James Victore, Scott Wadler, and more. The Wilde Years is curated by Gail Anderson, Sal DeVito, Janet Froelich, Todd Radom and Lisa Rettig-Falcone and designed by Kevin O'Callaghan.

THE WILDE YEARS
Through November 7, 2009
Click here for details
Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
New York, NY 10001

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AIGA/NY is hosting an event in honor of Richard Wilde's 40th Year Anniversary chairing the BFA Design & Advertising program at SVA. In the agenda are our very own Gail Anderson and Steven Heller, along with Arem Duplessis, Carin Goldberg and Paula Scher. Spend an evening with the best and brightest of design educators as they discuss their own careers in design education and showcase some of their results—their students.


THOSE THAT CAN, TEACH
Monday, 10/26/09 6:30—8:30PM
SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
Click here to register


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ADC Young Guns presents selected winners to showcase their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. This month's speaker is Julien Vallée. Based in Montréal, Canada, graphic designer Julien Vallée marries handcraft and digital technology to produce awe-inspiring work in both print and motion. From art installations to videos for the music industry, Julien's work has been published worldwide in international graphic books and magazines. In 2008 he was part of the YCN Live 2008 event where he exhibited work in Sydney and at the Bloomberg YCN showroom in London. His client list includes Computer Arts, Swatch, MTV-One and the New York Times Magazine. Julien was part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

JULIEN VALLÉE
Monday, 10/26/09 6:30—8:00PM
Apple SoHo
103 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
Free talk
Click here for details


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MFA Design Criticism Department presents Blind Handshake, a panel moderated by art historian Gloria Kury, where David Humphrey and Geoff Kaplan will discuss their recent collaborations on books about contemporary art and art writing. Kury is an art historian who has taught at Yale and SVA, and is the founder and director of Periscope Publications; Humphrey is a writer and visual artist who is a recipient of the Rome Prize and a senior critic at the Yale School of Art; Kaplan is a graphic designer at the General Working Group and teaches at California College of the Arts; and Nesbit is a professor of art at Vassar College and the J. Kirk T. Varnedoe Visiting Professor of 2007 at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

BLIND HANDSHAKE
Tuesday, 10/27/09, 6:30PM
SVA West Building
133 West 21st Street, Room 101C
New York, NY 10011
Free lecture
Click here for details


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MFA Interaction Design Department welcomes Jason Fried, co-founder and president of 37Signals, as part of their bi-monthly Fall Lecture Series to inspire conversation, pursue change and incite creation. Jason believes there’s real value and beauty in the basics. Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software.



JASON FRIED LECTURE
Wednesday, 10/28/09, 6:00-8:00PM
MFA Interaction Design
132 West 21st Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Free lecture
Click here for details

Guest Editorial

We're always excited to get a guest contributor at CRIT. We're delighted that one of our readers, Danielle Filsinger, submitted a lovely piece on the TDC Night of the Italians event.

When the moon hits your eye…
It may be because there was an Italian behind that design. Or more likely an expatriate Italian Designer.

But what does it mean to be an Italian Designer today? Does it really matter anymore? That was one of the many topics discussed Thursday, October 16, 2009 at the TDC’s presentation of La Notte Degli Italiani (The Night of the Italians). The panelists, Louise Fili, Francesco Cavalli, Massimo Vignelli, and Matteo Bologna, all seemed to be well adept in their approach and have a strong love of design. Here is what I took away from the panel:

1. An individual’s heritage is not important in today’s culture. What is important is the strength of your approach and the ceilings that constrain you. According to Francesco Cavailli, New Yorkers don’t know Italy very well... but they like it a lot.

2. Italy is for laying back and taking it easy. Italy is a really great place to hang out, especially as a designer. As Matteo Bologna pointed out, Italians are still known for the 3 F’s: Food, Fashion, and Furniture.

3. Italy is not easily linked to innovation. When designers come here (NY) they are able to experiment more and come up with something new, different and exciting. New York is the source of inspirations for Italians, just like the rest of us.

4. Italy vs. New York: Italy is all about creativity but, as a whole, tends to lose interest when it comes down to the final stages. In America you deal primarily with middle management – as they put it, "marketing is the art of protecting your back". Also observed was that Americans are more pragmatic and analytical in their approach.

5. On Clients: Typeface is the voice of the client. Web is most exciting thing there is today; the book is dead. Anything on-line reaches millions (unlimited people) - books can’t do that; they have a limited run - they’ve reached the ceiling.

6. On Style: It takes time to develop style. Looking inward you never see it. You need to be a problem solver: there are always 100 different solutions; but the way you solve a problem is your style. Solve a problem, know how to work with clients, and show you have a design voice. Style will come-out from inside you. It’s important to develop your own approach not style. Your interpretation of reality is what counts – when you’re grasping to understand something it tends to look like you’re coping someone else. Strive for appropriateness, discipline, consistency and logic in your design.

7. A few additional words of advice: Color makes people respond; strength is in the approach and type is all about kerning. And finally, as the moderator, Paula Antonelli had said, “Study in Italy but work in New York.”

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I draw a lot of inspiration from the engaging narrative, honest dialogue and emotive moments that permeate the work of Hillman Curtis. What draws me the most to Curtis’ work is his short documentaries. His Artist Series remains among my favorite videos. Beautifully shot and composed, I find myself revisiting them time and again when I need motivation, inspiration and just simple wisdom.

I love the quiet simplicity and honesty of film, and I use it quite often in my work. Last year for an assignment where we were randomly assigned a classmate as the subject of our project, I chose to showcase my classmate by presenting him through the format of Hillman Curtis’s Artist Series. To me, Curtis’s approach to film-making is a perfect balance between poignant storytelling and lyrical composition and movement. And because Curtis greatly influences me, I’ve always been curious to find out what influences the narrative of his film work. I was delighted to find out that I’ll be able to get a rare glimpse into the mind of this respected designer, self-taught filmmaker and author thanks to a Small Talk event hosted by AIGA/NY (details below).

Stay tuned for my write-up on the event and in the meantime, be sure to check out the Hillman Curtis website and his Artist Series. Share your thoughts of Hillman Curtis with us by posting a comment below and one reader will be randomly selected to receive free admission to the event.

AIGA/NY SMALL TALK NO. 2: HILLMAN CURTIS
MOVING PORTRAITS

Thursday 22 October 2009
6:30–8:00PM
Bumble and bumble, 3rd floor auditorium
415 West 13th Street Between Ninth Avenue & Washington St.

6:30–7:00PM Check-in
7:00–8:00PM Presentation

$20 AIGA members
$10 AIGA student members
$35 General public

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